Pair charged with dealing heroin from hotel room

WESTFALL, Pa. — Two people have been charged with trafficking heroin from a Westfall Township hotel room, officials announced Thursday.

Gittel Evangelist

WESTFALL, Pa. — Two people have been charged with trafficking heroin from a Westfall Township hotel room, officials announced Thursday.

Detectives from the Pike County District Attorney’s Office investigated a tip from Eastern Pike Regional Police and the chief of Delaware Valley school police that Rashawn Cooks, 29, of Paterson, N.J., was selling heroin at two Westfall hotels, District Attorney Ray Tonkin said in a press release.

Cooks was arrested Wednesday along with Melissa Schultz, 32, of Milford, after undercover detectives bought heroin from the two at the Hampton Inn.

Police seized 1,243 bags of heroin, roughly 3 grams of crack cocaine and some powder cocaine, as well as $4,700 in cash, Tonkin said. The drugs had a street value of more than $20,000, he said. Cooks and Schultz were each charged with two counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and criminal conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance, both felonies.

gevangelist@th-record.com

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